systems thinking 6

CASIMIR, From the work completed, the professor asked these questions. Can you take a shot at a response?

The main feature you identify here as a disadvantage of systems thinking—viz.having a focus that is limited in certain ways—is particularly unusual because it’s precisely this, which the systems thinking tradition has criticized as reductionist and which this tradition sees itself as overcoming. Systems thinking’s central insight, according to its proponents, is the recognition that an adequate understanding of phenomena requires us to look at wholes and the often complex relations between the parts and subsystems that make up larger systems. A clear example of the kind of mistake systems thinking wants to avoid would be the reductionist mistake of mainstream economics—which is to say, considering “the economy” as a sort of autonomous sphere that follows predictable mathematical law and can be studied in abstraction and independent of the underlying complexities of the “entire ecological and social fabric” as you nicely put it. So, I wonder what makes you suspect that the “use of systems thinking also gives an illusion of unlimited economic growth?” Famously, the idea of unlimited economic growth was forcefully challenge from a systems thinking approach used by Donella Meadows (who we read in week 2 already) in the book “The Limits to Growth” (1972).

 

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